Ok - have been working on it. Not so difficult. I decided not to drop the "A" or "The" from the front of the movie name (BTW, it is sortName not sortOrder :) ).

I did decide to only rename certain files, feeling that loading the fanart and stuff might overwrite .jpg or .nfo files I might want to ...

Recently learned of FileBot from unRAID forum. Looks great!!

I'd like to organize my movies by decade.

1980s\...
1990s\...
2000s\...

So I was trying to find a substring like function so that I would take the first three characters of the year, then add a "0s". But could not find such a function ...